The Programmer's Fulcrum: 06 December, 2025
Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" Post along with their featured articles.
Original 'The Fulcrum' content updates will start in January when I sunset Symfony Station and Battalion.
Posts with original content will start next month.
Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 05 December 2025 ✦
Get the latest from the Symfony Universe and PHP development communities.
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Sulu announces Sulu 3.0:
This major release represents the biggest architectural shift in our CMS since version 2.0. We’ve completely rebuilt how content is stored and managed, updated key dependencies, and improved the developer experience. The numbers also tell a story: We added 153,471 lines of new code while removing 265,104. The result is a faster, more familiar system that’s easier to debug and extend.
Let’s take a closer look at what’s changed and why it matters for your projects.
Sulu 3.0: Faster content storage, simplified dependencies, and a cleaner developer experience
I see a retirement project coming up. ;)
Destroying Autocracy – December 04, 2025
Welcome to this week's "Destroying Autocracy". It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it.
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Hamish Campbell writes:
ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the open web. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.
This is why the OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed 4 Opens protocol that treats publishing as a flow, a conversation.
Unlike the more vertical stacks (ATProto is a good example), ActivityPub doesn’t force a worldview. It doesn’t tell you, “this is how your network must be structured.” It doesn’t enforce hierarchy or lock you into one interpretation of identity, authority, or workflow. It’s a KISS path – here’s a shared language, verbs for publishing and receiving, express objects, updates, relationships. The rest is up to the commons.
This flexibility is exactly why the OMN can become a part of this flow.
Why the OMN works with ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to p2p
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